I’m white, my family is mixed.
Kristin Weaver Tlili, Bangor, ME My sons are a beautiful combination of Ohio and North Africa living in New England. I never wanted to have...
The Race Card Project
By Michele Norris
Kristin Weaver Tlili, Bangor, ME My sons are a beautiful combination of Ohio and North Africa living in New England. I never wanted to have...
Jill Goughnour Lynchburg, VA Submitted via: NPR’s Talk of the Nation
Ryan Barrows, Portland, ME. There is only one color and this “Love”
Jack T Buss, Belfast, ME I grew up accepting the concept that black people could not live in my hometown. I realize now many of...
Anonymous, Portland, ME Although I’ve explained a thousand, people keep telling me that Jewish is a race not a religion. At this point, why both.
José Andrés, Submitted via Twitter: @chefjoseandres. Yes that is chef José Andrés…
Penny Shaff Altman, Portland, ME. My father told me stories drawn from his childhood in the Ukraine. My mother told me stories about her life...
Francesca Magno Portland, ME I come from a very large Irish/Italian family. We have traditions and ideals representative of different cultures. Yet, when people identify...
Shannon Paiement Sanford, ME Many people are unaware less than 100 years ago, the KKK was marching through my hometown, discriminating against Franco-American mill workers....
Ivy Portland, ME Yes I am a white female but I do not think I fit the stereotypes associated with the label “white girl”.
Matthew English, Lakeland, FL. Michele was at my college today for convocation. Her words spoke the truth. I will always listen.
James Eliot Griffith Stillwater, OK It’s irritating how in this day and age if I just tell someone I’m Mexican (which is the side of...
Bonni Hamilton, Eliot, ME. I grew up with two Native American siblings who my parents adopted when we were very small. When he was young,...
Jim Roaix, Lake Worth Beach, FL I was born in northern Maine, so far out in the woods that it took two days for tomorrow...
Rebekah Bickford, Baldwin, ME. My white family moved from Indiana to Mississippi in 1977, when I was 8 years old. Our family was seen as...
Sonya J Van Alstyne, Submitted via Twitter: @SonyaJordan #theracecardproject
Noel Hudson, ME I go to college in a pretty white community. There are about 10-20 black people out of 600 students. I grew up...